On January 09 Friday 2004 1:22 pm, Bill Gradwohl wrote: > I've seen this "blank" behavior on a main board with an embedded video > chip. An ASUS something or other. > > I noticed that if I hit a key to stop the 10 second count down and start > the boot process, it always gave me the blank screen up to the time that X > started. > > If I waited and allowed the clock to hit 0 and boot by itself it always > came up fine allowing me to see the [ OK ]'s flying by. I have no clue > if this was coincidental or not, but I was curious about it and did some > amount of half hearted testing either way and I was left with the > impression that allowing it to run the clock down always worked but that > was several months ago. > > I also had a crappy Belden (I repeat myself) KVM switch during that time > and the switch was the most likely culprit. However, I never observed the > behavior on anything but an embedded video main board. I had several boxes > at the time with the same main board and they all did it. I'm using a I Will k7s3 mainboard with a radeon 7000 by gigabyte video card. This a must admit is strange but once in awhile it has come up on screen. But if I do pick or let go with its default, it'll make no difference. Thanks, Carlos -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
